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Tourrettia lappacea

Botanic Family

Bignoniaceae

Author

(L'Héritier) Willdenow ex Linnaeus f.

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• NW. Argentina
• Bolivia
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Cloud forest
• coastal
• wasteland

Flowering Times

• Feb-Apr (Nic) Jun-Aug (Peru)

Fruiting Times

• Dec-Apr (Nic)

Annual herbaceous branched-tendril succulent vine with coarsely serrate. Sometime lobed leaves, terminal leaflet to 50mm x 15mm. Terminal racemes with scarlet bracts, tubular scarlet red or dusky violet flowers, calyx to 10mm long. Fruit an ovoid capsule to 50mm long, 17mm wide, with large hooked spines to 15mm long

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Mobot
• The Plant List 2
• G. Don
• Botanicus
• FOPE
• Kew
• Standley